It's
only been two days since President Bush announced in a well orchestrated
fanfare that Miami would loosen the quarantine that has strangled
the city for the last two months. And in those two days a swell of
criticism has begun to rise, mostly leveled at the new 'UDR' Undead
Defense Regiment, or 'Undertakers' as they have swiftly become
known as.
Fred
Sommers, of "Undead Rights", a new Undead civil liberties
organization, objects to the operation, "Why is everyone standing
around clapping as our leaders are tearing up the Constitution? The
President said today that we are doing little more than sending the
United States Army into an American city to search every single
business and home without a search warrant or probable cause and arrest
or kill anyone who stands in their way. What about those who have
been infected but have not yet reanimated as Undead? What protections
do they have? What are the procedures to reunite the families of the
Undead the Army summarily executes with their loved ones remains?
What is going to happen to the people the Army arrests? Will they
face trail? Will they have lawyers?"
Kris Sallon,
of "One World Order Watch," sees dark motives in an Operation
he does
not see as necessary, "Everything the government has said over
the past two weeks
says that the Mortosis Outbreak in Miami is ending. With over 97%
or more of the
population evacuated and almost no Undead sightings in a week, I have
to wonder
why the government would want to start a massive multi-million dollar
military
operation at the end of the crisis? I just talked to a guy from FEMA
who said he
doesn't think there are more than a dozen zombies left in the entire
city. All this for a
dozen zombie?
"The
answer is simple, the only reason the government is running this operation
is
that it was planned in advance. Long in advance. The Mortosis operation
is nothing
more than a cover for the government to roll into a real city and
run a live fire
exercise on how they would invade a populated American city to suppress
civilian
unrest. Watch out, today they are sending in the Army to free us from
the 'zombie
menace.' Tomorrow they will be invading to free us from our civil
rights."
Others
see a more down to earth reason for the Operation. "The Bush
Administration,
Governor Crist and Mayor Schlader have been criticized relentless
since the beginning of
the Miami Outbreak," says Kelly Langstrom, a Washington D.C.
political analyst.
"After taking a political battering for so long, I think they
are just trying to clean up
their images and gain back some popular support. And, what better
way of doing it
than sending in the troops to save the day? Granted, the Outbreak
is probably over
already, so why not wrap it in the flag and call it a victory for
their administrations?..........where's an aircraft carrier when you
need one?"
Most Miami
evacuees are simply happy to see an end to the crisis and the chance
to
go back home. Ernie Kosler, a long time Miami resident living in a
FEMA evacuation
center outside Augusta, Georgia, says he is happy but frustrated,
"I'm want to go
home. I don't really care who takes credit for it, or how it gets
done, I just want to
sleep in my own bed and take a shower in my own bathroom. I don't
have much
money left after all this, but if I can get family home we'll have
our best Christmas
ever.